I've got some invites to This.cm, which is why I've been inexplicably using 'This.' instead of 'this'. I'll give the invites out to the first people who reply within the newsletter (I need your email for it). People are 'clamoring' for them, after all, even thought I'd had these invites for a while and you'd probably never heard of it? I'd expect to have the same number of invites by the end of this experiment, because All things go ...Read more »

5 thing you totally, most definitely need to something something

I didn't tweet much at all yesterday (I know!) and this is supposed to be about things I tweeted. So to be brief and to try something new, here are the current five trending stories at the Freeman. Think of this like one of those daily newsletters, but one that you'll actually read, like mine, right? RIGHT?

SO, here are 5 thing you need to something something actually it's just a list:
* Law and Disorder. The police blotter is unstoppable. Everyone likes it and loves to hate it and nobody wants to be in it. This comes up often, so I might as well put it here: if you're in it, the Freeman can update the status of the case. But no, we don't take things down and we can't take you off of Google.
* A woman says he was given a fake Benjamin. BY HER BANK.
* There are some school delays but this story is kind of too late if you're just reading it to be useful in any manner lololol.
* Drugs are bad, mkay?
* Tania took a bunch of photos of the snow on Tuesday and caught this bald eagle.

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No day but today. But today kind of sucks

Today I'll be brief because life has gotten in the way of the Life Department business. How dare you, life? I've got Life to do.
No loss, though, because today has been canceled, even though it didn't really need to be?
I hope you have plans for all the vegetables and milk you bought.
So I'm calling it. We don't know how to winter (I'm also turning 'winter' into a verb).
Also today, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver hasn't been canceled, even though he needs to be?
Today is weird. Time to criticize your mayor.
The town supervisor of Wawarsing wants to use a maximum security jail's unused building to grow pot. There's a lot more nuance to that but I'm going to leave that there. *Insert pot joke*On Feb. 5, 1907, the Kingston Freeman reported that an unnamed president of the United States went out in a blizzard. *Insert pot joke*

One cat: Hope you're enjoying the snow.

One Google Glass photo: Spooky house or City Hall?

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Let's get buried together in the Snowpocalypsmaggedon

I hope you're home by the time you read this if you're in the Hudson Valley or the Catskills because we're about to get 12 to 24 inches of snow depending on how miserable you wanted to be when you picked a place to live in the area good jorb.

Anyway, if you want to share your pics on the twitters or the instagrams, use #dfsnow to share your photos but don't do that on Facebook because hashtags are terrible on Facebook.

* Did you know Wikipedia has a 'supreme court' and that it can ban people from editing articles? It's all because of the 'Gamergate controversy' and you'll regret it if you click on that last link to the Wikipedia article. People can be awful.

So, in case we're not clear: Please do not molest or "throw missiles at" animals in New York City parks because that's very specifically spelled out as being against the law, but don't do it in other places either, OK?

I recognize that most of this post is related to New York State. So, if you're one of the lovely subscribers from the West Coast or elsewhere, here's an explainer of the state of New York in the form of a drunk plane.

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The Oatmeal has an Exploding Kittens card game on Kickstarter that was funded within 20 minutes. But Mr. Oats doesn't really need Kickstater. He once sent a troll lawyer a photo of money he had raised spelling 'FU.' I already met my four-letter-words quota so you're left to decipher that.

State of the Union 2015 bingo: FACE BINGO edition

Every year, news organizations spend many resources creating very useful State of the Union bingo cards so that you can watch and not really pay attention to what's being said and/or clapped or tsk tsk'ed.

Live music should be mandatory at the office

The legendary Pete Seeger made the Hudson Valley city of Beacon his longtime home. But now the city is being overrun by hipsters, according to Hudson Valley mag, which is starting to milk this topic more than I am, and that's saying something.
Don't say I didn't warn you.

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason (you are very likely to also know them from "Ashokan Farewell," above, featured prominently in Ken Burn's "The Civil War") AND Mike + Ruthie came by the office yesterday and treated us to a most incredible mini-concert as part of a new monthly feature we're working on but shhhh don't tell anyone I told you it's a secret.

For a minute there, there was music everywhere. This should be mandatory in the office just saying boss just saying.

One Google Glass photo: Party in the middle, my desk to the right. Ruthy gets extra points for holding her kid while playing.

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I was going to write something about SUNY New Paltz being in HBO's 'Girls' again because the episode aired on Sunday but I lost power yesterday, which brings you that wonderful photo of Highland Avenue in Kingston above. So all you get is SUNY New Paltz milking it, again. I was going to watch 'Downton Abbey,' anyway. NO SPOILERS!

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If you give a perp a cookie

"Do you recognize the individual in the car? If so, we would like to talk to him!" says the Kingston Police Department on Facebook, all excited as if they were going to give the perp a cookie good jorb.
In any case, are you reading this and you're the perp? Go to 1 Garraghan Drive in Kingston! They have cookies? Who knows!

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This post will not go viral

A four-year old Storify about the ~New Brooklyn ~ is going viral again because people keep posting it on Facebook. Astute readers of Yesterday Internet, Today™ learned on Monday that it was not a recent post. You can brag about that but I wouldn't because that would be weird. Don't be weird.

DFM chat tackles how to post to Facebook as it constantly changes its algorithm

#fail

Greetings!

Journalists, members of Digital First Media and pretty much everyone else who wants to - are going to be taking part on the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday at noon, Eastern Time. If you got here because a college teacher sent you, *high five cat gif* But seriously how do you guys find this?

Anyway! Today we tackle Facebook. As the algorithm changes —and, boy, does it change?— so does journalists' way of posting and the implications of such changes, like uploading video to Facebook as opposed to just posting a link to the video. "Post great content" is great and all that, but there are lingering questions. Should you sponsor your posts? Should you upload your hard-to-produce videos? Bring your questions, your #realtalk, your links and tips.

The feed is posted below. You can also check out past chats over here.

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One Google Glass picture of goats at the Ulster County Fair in New Paltz in 2013 (I knew I had at least one from the bunch).

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New York Times compares area to Brooklyn, Part ILostCount

Remember that time(s) when the New York Times compared some area in the Hudson Valley or The Catskills or anywhere else anywhere to Brooklyn even though c'mon srsly again? It got so bad the Gray Lady's standards editor told his peeps to cut it out.

But that was waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in November of 2014, so long ago it's already been forgotten obvs idk lol?

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There are a million reason why editors shouldn't put jokes when doing news pages that they intend to take out later. Here's another one.

Here's a teen schooling the olds on their conceptions about teens on social media. If you didn't understand that sentence, you're an old. I might have written that last sentence before. I'm an old, too.

What are the best ways to tweet articles?

Today's topic aims to create a workflow for finding the best ways to tweet articles. Sounds simple enough. The thing is, it's going to be different for everyone, depending on size of following, location, tone, etc. So the idea is to find a way to know when things work and things don't. Bring your tips!

The feed is posted below. You can also check out past chats over here.

If you want to chime in, post a comment in the container or a tweet with the hashtag "#dfmchat" so it can automatically appear below.

At least we know what will be on TV when the world ends

News!
Newly re-elected Congressman Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, says he won't seek re-election, and that obviously means that my Gibson gifs will need to be updated, if he goes for statewide office or for P R E S I D E N T later on but let's not speculate just yet OK? Let's just focus on this terrible Gibson quiz.

Not News!
* Have you ever wondered what will be on TV when the robot zombie alien overlords destroys us all? NOW YOU KNOW. However, "the end of the world must be confirmed." Good jorb, journalism! Also, in case you are actually wondering even though you're not, the world is fine, thank you very much.